Monday, September 27, 2010

That's me, standing between two wonderful needle women at Maker Faire. Held at The New York Hall of Science, this festival had some pretty awesome fiber art.Robyn Love (left) is the creator of this rocket/blanket display. I contributed a 12" square. Anna Hrachovec (right) was a guest "maker" in the NYSCI library.

Lion Brand Yarn sponsored Robyn's exhibit.

From their PR:

At the rocket ship a trail of over 300 knit and crocheted squares will be attached to flow from the rocket.

This interactive exhibit will allow visitors to write notes and pin them to the yarn crafted trail of squares with their personal “message to the universe."

After the event, the squares will be recreated into afghans to donate to the Warm Up America! Foundation"

Monday, September 6, 2010

Maker Faire is coming to NYC. In fact, The New York Hall of Science will be hosting this enormous Do-It-Yourself Festival on Sept 25/26th. (300 exhibitors, 25,000 visitors).

The librarian (moi) will present several specially invited makers in the Hall of Science library, including a table of my mushrooms, lichen etc.For this special occasion, I plan to go the yarn bombing route and create a sweater for the security gates.

In the process now of making the "sleeves". One of the two will be reds/oranges and the other in the blue/green family. The vertical arms might be purple. Stay tuned.